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  • Taming the Megabanks

    Why We Need a New Glass-Steagall Act

    by Arthur E. Wilmarth Jr ...
    Banks were allowed to enter securities markets and become universal banks during two periods in the past century - the 1920s and the late 1990s. Both times, universal banks made high-risk loans and packaged them into securities that were sold as safe investments to poorly-informed investors. Both times, universal banks promoted unsustainable booms that led to destructive busts - the Great ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Perspectives on Financing Innovation

    Edited by James E. Daily, F Scott Kieff, Arthur E. Wilmarth ...
    Series series Routledge/C-LEAF Studies in Economic and Financial Law
    Although much has been written about innovation in the past several years, not all parts of the innovation lifecycle have been given the same treatment. This volume focuses on the important first step of arranging financing for innovation before it is made, and explores the feedback effect that innovation can have on finance itself.The book brings together a diverse group of leading scholars in ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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    The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown

    by Simon Johnson, James Kwak ...
    In spite of its key role in creating the ruinous financial crisis of 2008, the American banking industry has grown bigger, more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever. Anchored by six megabanks whose assets amount to more than 60 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, this oligarchy proved it could first hold the global economy hostage and then use its political muscle to ... Read more

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  • The Bankers' New Clothes

    What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It - Updated Edition

    by Anat Admati, Anat Admati, Martin Hellwig, Martin Hellwig ...
    Why our banking system is broken—and what we must do to fix itAs memories of the Global Financial Crisis have faded, it has been tempting to believe that the banking system is now safe and that we will never again have to choose between havoc and massive bailouts. But The Bankers’ New Clothes shows that reforms have changed little—and that the banks still present serious dangers to the world ... Read more

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  • Age of Greed

    The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present

    by Jeff Madrick ...
    **A vivid history of the recent economics of greed in the United States. This book explores how the pursuit of immense personal wealth has led to economic inequity and instability in the country.“A fascinating and deeply disturbing tale of hypocrisy, corruption, and insatiable greed. . . . A much-needed reminder of just how we got into the mess we’re in.”—The New York Review of Books**Age of Greed ... Read more

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  • The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, Authorized Edition

    Final Report of the National Commission on the Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the Un

    by Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission ...
    The definitive report on what caused America's economic meltdown and who was responsible. The financial and economic crisis has touched the lives of millions of Americans who have lost their jobs and their homes, but many have little understanding of how it happened. Now, in this very accessible report, readers can get the facts. Formed in May 2009, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) ... Read more

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  • The Benefit and The Burden

    Tax Reform-Why We Need It and What It Will Take

    by Bruce Bartlett ...
    A thoughtful and surprising argument for American tax reform, arguably the most overdue political debate facing the nation, from one of the most respected political and economic thinkers, advisers, and writers of our time.THE UNITED STATES TAX CODE HAS UNDERGONE NO SERIOUS REFORM SINCE 1986. Since then, loopholes, exemptions, credits, and deductions have distorted its clarity, increased its ... Read more

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  • The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis

    by Ben S. Bernanke ...
    Ben Bernanke's history of the Federal Reserve and its response to the 2008 financial crisisIn 2012, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, gave a series of lectures about the Federal Reserve and the 2008 financial crisis, as part of a course at George Washington University on the role of the Federal Reserve in the economy. In this unusual event, Bernanke revealed important background ... Read more

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  • In FED We Trust

    Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic

    by David Wessel ...
    “Whatever it takes”That was Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s vow as the worst financial panic in more than fifty years gripped the world and he struggled to avoid the once unthinkable: a repeat of the Great Depression. Brilliant but temperamentally cautious, Bernanke researched and wrote about the causes of the Depression during his career as an academic. Then when thrust into a role as one ... Read more

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  • Gods at War

    Shotgun Takeovers, Government by Deal, and the Private Equity Implosion

    by Steven M. Davidoff ...
    An engaging exploration of modern-day deals and deal-makingGods at War details the recent deals and events that have forever changed the world of billion-dollar deal-making. This book is a whirlwind tour of the players determining the destiny of corporate America, including the government, private equity, strategic buyers, hedge funds, and sovereign wealth funds.It not only examines many of the ... Read more

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  • Lost Decades

    The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery

    by Menzie D. Chinn, Jeffry A. Frieden ...
    A clear, authoritative guide to the crisis of 2008, its continuing repercussions, and the needed reforms ahead.The U.S. economy lost the first decade of the twenty-first century to an ill-conceived boom and subsequent bust. It is in danger of losing another decade to the stagnation of an incomplete recovery. How did this happen? Read this lucid explanation of the origins and long-term effects of ... Read more

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  • The Fed and Lehman Brothers

    Setting the Record Straight on a Financial Disaster

    by Laurence M. Ball ...
    Series series Studies in Macroeconomic History
    The bankruptcy of the investment bank Lehman Brothers was the pivotal event of the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession that followed. Ever since the bankruptcy, there has been heated debate about why the Federal Reserve did not rescue Lehman in the same way it rescued other financial institutions, such as Bear Stearns and AIG. The Fed's leaders from that time, especially former Chairman ... Read more

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